Rituals of Remembering: Staying in Touch

When we lose someone, it’s easy to feel like we can no longer communicate with them. While we may not be able to directly speak to them in the same way we did before, there are many ways we can communicate with them, creatively and spiritually speaking. Join us on Saturday August 24th from 12 - 2pm for a discussion on how we already speak to our lost loved ones and ancestors and brainstorm other ways we can feel like we’re staying in touch with those we’ve lost, and a writing and "mailing" letters to our lost loved ones.

All ages are welcome—we will have a youth facilitator doing an age-appropraite parallel activity with children. Please let us know if you will bring your kids!

This event is FREE and open to everyone.

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Rituals of Remembering is a discussion and creative activity-based workshop series that aims to provide a space and structure for participants to open and deepen our experience of grief, loss, and remembering beyond the death of those we love, using the garden space as the central theme. Each month will focus on a particular theme and related activity and invite participants to discuss rituals of remembering together in a group setting. Each activity will also give opportunities to incorporate remembering directly into the garden space, so that community members may return to remember in the garden beyond the workshop series. Events can be attended individually or as a series in 2025 one Saturday a month in March, April, May, June, August, September, and October 2025.

This event series resented in partnership with , , , and Healing Illinois.

Artist/Facilitator: (she/her) is an interdisciplinary visual artist, poet, mother, and facilitator living in Chicago. Her work explores grief, rituals, ecology, and Motherhood. Alyssa’s social practice involves participatory community gatherings including those for mothers in the arts. In addition to her creative work, Alyssa works as an arts administrator for music performance organizations and is an avid gardener, and loves exploring the world with her kid.

Youth Facilitator: is a multi-disciplinary performing artist and educator living in Chicago, IL. She is a facilitator and advocate for inclusion and accessibility. She grew up in Cleveland, OH and earned a Bachelors of Science in Psychology and Dance. Gaby continues to find connections between both realms of study through her practices, performances, and teachings. Being outside and tending to nature brings her much joy and she is happy to share in community.

Honoring the Legacy of our friend and collaborator Ms. Bertha Purnell who transitioned on Janurary 18th, 2025.

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